Hopefully but how much longer do we wait 6 months or 6 years
selling up
- Thread starter Billboy1
- Start date
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
If f the sh!t really does hit the fan with food shortages we could be in for a good few years.
This time next year Rodney
The step change in input prices is certainly focusing a few minds.
The certainty now is there’s a high chance of working in conventional farming and not seeing a reward at year end.
Something will change and it won’t be an increase in food production.
Farming in a sustainable fashion will be more pertinent than ever and especially from a financial perspective.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Cash is one thing opportunities are another. A bit of help from the older generation is needed. Part of the reason farming is sidelined is the lack of young voices. The Vegan/climate change gang have the young ears farming needs find a farming spokesman who is down with kids and that’s unlikely the way things are.
I would miss pottering around in the garden on a Sunday afternoon.
Just my garden is a bit bigger and the shovel doesn’t give me back ache.
Just my garden is a bit bigger and the shovel doesn’t give me back ache.
- Location
- Darlington
Been waiting all my life, had some good times but didn't realise it until they'd gone, hopefully heading in to a prolonged one now.
- Location
- Darlington
Castle Farm
Member
I won £30 on yesterdays lotto. Going to buy 10kg 20-10-10
Alot of the reason I'm fed up is that I'm in my mid forties and I seem to have not done much with my life in comparison with others of my age who work in agriculture and other jobs, I have a lovely wife and 2 great kids, but are I'm completely underfilled when I see others around about, with there multiple foreign holidays, time for nice hobbies and what seems to be better lives and do much less work ! Bit of jealousy and thinking the "grass is greener" but I've had to work since I was sixteen full time apart from working abroad for a couple of months when I was 19. Tired of being a "asset rich cash poor" farmer ! I would like to not feel guilty about watching my son play rugby/cricket on a Sunday, be able to take my wife away on a break now and again without it being a major issue. Just to live the life of what others seem to be able to do ! I love farming but not the life and family politics that go with it !
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Sounds like my Dad except he never sold up but probably should have.
Herdwick sheep
Member
- Location
- Cumbria
Why do you feel guilty watching your lad play rugby or taking your wife away? Do others think your not pulling your weight?
Herdwick sheep
Member
- Location
- Cumbria
If something happened and it all went , the most vital thing you got out of life is a lovely wife and 2 great kids. And that would be worth more to you than you know. And in my eyes, a successful life .
- Location
- Yorkshire coast
Not sure if government have sidetracked us. Often feels like they've sent every leech our way to take a few quid of us at every opportunity so we end up supporting all the numptys, in made up jobs and departments rather than the government giving them dole money..
- Location
- South West
Try not to get too bothered by the politics and opinions of others..many are pillocks who wish for the same as yourself but didn't have the spine to vocalise it or do it...sounds like you're on the right track
- Location
- Darlington
We certainly carry more than our fair share of clipboard carriers
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
When I go to check that mum is still safely at rest in the churchyard, I walk past the rather sunken gravestone of a farmer who was the local bigwig when we were children. He once boasted at an NFU meeting that he was going to farm all the land between the two nearest towns, including our patch. On his stone, his epitaph just reads "Tenant of XXXXXX farm for 40 years" and I think "That is the last thing I would want engraved on my grave stone!" Stud muffin, Daring kayaker, legendary lothario, Land Rover tinkerer, Runner up in the pub quiz, anything will be better than just "Tenant farmer for 40 years.."
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
When I go to check that mum is still safely at rest in the churchyard, I walk past the rather sunken gravestone of a farmer who was the local bigwig when we were children. He once boasted at an NFU meeting that he was going to farm all the land between the two nearest towns, including our patch. On his stone, his epitaph just reads "Tenant of XXXXXX farm for 40 years" and I think "That is the last thing I would want engraved on my grave stone!" Stud muffin, Daring kayaker, legendary lothario, Land Rover tinkerer, Runner up in the pub quiz, anything will be better than just "Tenant farmer for 40 years.."
That is incredibly sad
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
The really sad thing is that he was one of those old types who insisted he be seen ploughing on Christmas Day, and would treat the reps like crap as he was always way too busy to waste his valuable time. The estate couldn't wait to get the ground back so they could sell it up for gravel so it didn't get him anywhere in the long run and I don't suppose the young landlord has even heard of him.That is incredibly sad
I’d be happier with “tenant farmer for 40 years “ over lots of other thingsWhen I go to check that mum is still safely at rest in the churchyard, I walk past the rather sunken gravestone of a farmer who was the local bigwig when we were children. He once boasted at an NFU meeting that he was going to farm all the land between the two nearest towns, including our patch. On his stone, his epitaph just reads "Tenant of XXXXXX farm for 40 years" and I think "That is the last thing I would want engraved on my grave stone!" Stud muffin, Daring kayaker, legendary lothario, Land Rover tinkerer, Runner up in the pub quiz, anything will be better than just "Tenant farmer for 40 years.."
Plus it would mean I’m farming for quite a bit longer!